Former UB40 star Ali Campbell declared bankrupt

Oct 23 2011 by Jonny Greatrex, Sunday Mercury

FORMER UB40 singer Ali Campbell has been declared bankrupt, the Sunday Mercury can reveal.

Last week we told how four of his former bandmates had been hit by bankruptcy proceedings at Birmingham County Court.

But it has now emerged that Ali, 52, faced the same damaging legal action at Bournemouth County Court in June.

He quit the former chart-toppers in 2008 as the group faced financial disaster, despite selling an astonishing 70 million records worldwide.

Both sides later blamed each other for squandering money made from countless hit singles and albums.

The bitter war of words has continued since we revealed sax player Brian Travers, drummer Jimmy Brown, trumpeter Terence Oswald and percussionist Norman Hassan had gone bankrupt.

On UB40’s official website a post by a ‘band member’ said: “The financial difficulties were as a result of our singer leaving.

“It caused us to lose several million pounds worth of work and this had a knock-on effect of creating a black hole that the band have been working to drag themselves out of.”

Ali Campbell has previously claimed he tried to warn his ex-bandmates about the approaching financial disaster before their record company, DEP International, went into liquidation in 2008.